noun
Meaning 1
A peddler.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: South-Africa, historical
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Standard Lemma guide
smous
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noun
Meaning 2
A Jew from Germany or Eastern Europe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: South-Africa, historical
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verb
Meaning 3
To go about selling goods, as an itinerant peddler.
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Usage: South-Africa, historical
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History
Etymology
Borrowed from Afrikaans smous or Dutch smous, from a Yiddish word whose precise origin is uncertain. One theory is that it derives from Yiddish משה (moyshe, “Moses”), pronounced moushe in Western Yiddish, from Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (moshé, “Moses”).